Nick Clegg: I'm Just Like Only Fools And Horses Character Rodney Trotter

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has admitted what many voters already suspect – that he is a plonker.

And posh boy Clegg – who has become popular after impressing in the leaders’ debates on TV – reckons Rodders would be the best person to play him in a film.

Clegg said: “I’d like Henry Fonda to play me but he’s not around. So it would be someone like Rodney from Only Fools And Horses.”

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Denzil

Denzil Tulser is a long distance lorry driver, and a good friend of Derek Trotter, and one of Del's victims when it comes to dodgy goods. In the 1983 episode Who's A Pretty Boy? Denzil's ex-wife Corinne could however see through Del, and stated that whenever Denzil and Del got together, Denzil ended up drunk, or out-of-pocket, to which Denzil protests, "Yeah I know, but he's a mate." Del endured Corinne's wrath by ruining her wedding day food, after his fridge broke down, leaving the guests eating pie and chips, and Corinne cutting a Jam Sponge cake. The final straw came, when Denzil hired Del, Rodney and Grandad to paint the living room. They burnt a hole through the kettle, ruined the kitchen with the steam, and killed Corinne's canary. Panicking, they sent Grandad to buy a replacement bird, hoping to fool Corinne. The plan however failed, as Corinne came home to find the bird that had died before she left for work, had been resurrected, and the kettle with a hole in it.

Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2004 by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to identify the United Kingdom's best situation comedy. The winner with 316,657 votes was Only Fools and Horses.

Out of a list of 100 sitcoms, viewers were asked to vote for their favourite by phone, text message and on the web. The top ten went forward to a final round of voting. Ten special programmes were made before the final round, each about one of the Top 10, the programmes consisting of a celebrity speaking on behalf of their chosen sitcom as well as interviews with the stars and people that made it.

The top 10 were voted as follows:

1. Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003) — 316,657 votes
2. Blackadder (1983–1989) — 282,106 votes
3. The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007) — 212,927 votes
4. Dad's Army (1968–1977) — 174,138 votes
5. Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) — 172,066 votes
6. Yes Minister / Yes, Prime Minister (1980–1984, 1986–1988) — 123,502 votes
7. Porridge / Going Straight (1974–1977, 1978) — 93,902 votes
8. Open All Hours (1973, 1976–1985) — 67,237 votes
9. The Good Life (1975–1978) — 40,803 votes
10. One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000)— 31,410 votes

Trigger

Colin 'Trigger' Ball (born 22 April 1948), is a character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He is played by actor Roger Lloyd Pack.

A regular at the Nags Head pub, and old friend of Del Boy, Trigger is a road sweeper, and also appears to dabble in trading. He once supplied Del with paint which Del proceeded to use to decorate his mother's grave. Only then did Trigger inform him that the paint was used on signs in railway tunnels and therefore, luminous. Trigger has appeared on Only Fools and Horses since the very first episode and carried on appearing in almost every episode until the last final episode, Sleepless in Peckham.